Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     the single real teacher of politics, as he ventures to call
 2  Gorg|        he separate morals from politics. Nor is he unwilling to
 3  Gorg|          A shadow of a part of politics. This, as might be expected,
 4  Gorg|    upon them, first the art of politics, which attends on the soul,
 5  Gorg|   ridiculous when they take to politics, and I dare say that politicians
 6  Gorg|       the teacher of virtue or politics takes no money, because
 7  Gorg|        teaches the true art of politics. And very probably, as in
 8  Gorg|       will betake ourselves to politics, but not until we are delivered
 9  Gorg|      by the ancients merged in politics. Both in Plato and Aristotle,
10  Gorg|        holds up to us. Because politics, and perhaps human life
11  Gorg|     medicine, the sophistry of politics, the sophistry of theology.
12  Gorg|    form to their institutions. Politics with him are not a mechanism
13  Gorg|        permanent principles of politics which are always tending
14  Gorg|        he keeps the roadway of politics. He is unwilling to incur
15  Gorg|       dealing with children in politics, or with full- grown men,
16  Gorg|     for the unknown element of politics. But the game being one
17  Gorg|      discontented idealists in politics who, like Socrates in the
18  Gorg| common- places of morality and politics. He uses the things of sense
19  Gorg|     Art then must be true, and politics must be true, and the life
20  Gorg|       counterfeit of a part of politics.~POLUS: And noble or ignoble?~
21  Gorg|       counterfeit of a part of politics.~SOCRATES: I will try, then,
22  Gorg|      them: there is the art of politics attending on the soul; and
23  Gorg|     the other medicine. And in politics there is a legislative part,
24  Gorg|      they betake themselves to politics or business, are as ridiculous
25  Gorg|      practises the true art of politics; I am the only politician
26  Gorg|        will apply ourselves to politics, if that seems desirable,